A conveyance system (1) according to the present disclosure includes: a conveyance vehicle (10) that conveys an object based on a first traveling path; a sensor (20) that transmits information regarding a position of the conveyance vehicle (10) via a network; a communication unit (32) that can communicate with the conveyance vehicle (10) and the sensor (20); and a control unit (31) that controls the conveyance vehicle (10) via the communication unit (32). The control unit (31) determines a second traveling path based on the information regarding the position of the conveyance vehicle (10) and corrects a traveling trajectory of the conveyance vehicle (10) based on the first traveling path and the second traveling path.

Methods and apparatus for implementing a safety system for a mobile robot are described. The method comprises receiving first sensor data from one or more sensors, the first sensor data being captured at a first time, identifying, based on the first sensor data, a first unobserved portion of a safety field in an environment of a mobile robot, assigning, to each of a plurality of contiguous regions within the first unobserved portion of the safety field, an occupancy state, updating, at a second time after the first time, the occupancy state of one or more of the plurality of contiguous regions, and determining one or more operating parameters for the mobile robot, the one or more operating parameters based, at least in part, on the occupancy state of at least some regions of the plurality of contiguous regions at the second time.

An autonomous traveling apparatus includes a traveling body. The traveling body includes a first wheel portion and a second wheel portion each provided along a traveling direction of the autonomous traveling apparatus in the traveling body with a predetermined space being interposed between the first wheel portion and the second wheel portion. The second wheel portion has a pair of wheels. The autonomous traveling apparatus further includes a laser sensor. The laser sensor is configured to detect an object around the laser sensor, and is provided on the traveling body to avoid a portion above each of the pair of wheels such that a scanning plane is lower than a maximum reach point of a range of an upward/downward movement of each of the pair of wheels, the scanning plane being a range in which the laser light passes while rotating the laser light.

An apparatus for localizing a robot having robustness to a dynamic environment includes a map building unit which builds a map based on SLAM; a localizing unit which acquires first feature from sensor data acquired by a sensor mounted in a robot and localizes the robot using the first feature acquired from the sensor data based on the map built by the map building unit; and a map updating unit which reduces an error caused by the movement of the robot by correcting the first feature using an estimated position of the robot with regard to a feature obtained from a static object, among the first features acquired by the localizing unit.

The apparatus for detecting and removing a dynamic obstacle of a robot and the operating method thereof according to a predetermined exemplary embodiment detect and remove the dynamic obstacle while simultaneously performing the mapping and the localizing using the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technique to efficiently detect and remove a dynamic obstacle even in a situation in which a dynamic change of surrounding environment is severe and an environment to be localized is large.

An apparatus and a method for editing 3D SLAM data according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure directly edits a key frame or an edge of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) data by the user's manipulation, optimizes a pose graph of the 3D SLAM data based on the key frame and the edge edited by the user's manipulation, and generates a 2D grid map corresponding to the 3D SLAM data based on the updated 3D SLAM data to improve the convenience of the user for editing the 3D SLAM data.

System and method for taking inventory of a plurality of objects within a structure. The method is executed by a controller of an autonomous mobile robot and comprises causing the said robot to navigate through at least a portion of the structure, causing at least one camera of the robot to acquire a plurality of positioning images at a first resolution and determining that at least one positioning image contains an image of a predetermined landmark. In response to determining that the at least one positioning image contains the image of the predetermined landmark, the autonomous mobile robot navigates to a predetermined data collection position, the at least one camera of the autonomous mobile robot acquires at least one inventory image at a second resolution, the second image resolution being greater than the first resolution, and a plurality of inventory labels are extracted from the at least one inventory image.

A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, which is movable on a surface, includes obtaining a model (world model) of the surface, by which each area of the surface is associated with a probabilistic occupancy score; determining, on the basis of the area's position, an occupancy threshold to be applied to an area of the surface; enabling movement of the AV into the area if the associated occupancy score is less than the determined occupancy threshold; and otherwise disabling movement into the area. In one embodiment, where the model is obtained or updated based on measurement data from one or more sensors carried by the autonomous vehicle, the occupancy threshold is determined to be relatively lower if the area is outside a field of view of the sensors carried by the AV and relatively higher if the area is inside the field of view.

A conveyance system according to the present disclosure includes a conveyance vehicle configured to travel along a guide line laid on a traveling road. The conveyance vehicle includes: a guide line detection unit configured to detect the guide line; an object position detection unit configured to detect information on a position of an object around the conveyance vehicle; and a stop position determination unit configured to determine a stop position of the conveyance vehicle based on a result of detection by the object position detection unit.

This traveling system includes: a setting processing unit that sets a travel route corresponding to each of the plurality of automatic traveling devices; a calculation processing unit that, when a first automatic traveling device interferes with a travel of other automatic traveling devices, calculates an evaluation value representing an influence level that the first automatic traveling device imposes on the travel of the other automatic traveling devices; and a change processing unit that, when the evaluation value calculated by the calculation processing unit is greater than or equal to a threshold, changes the travel route that is set to the first automatic traveling device by the setting processing unit.